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yes, that's it, now it works.
I also used to prepare the dataset in Excel first and then import it into MLWin.
However, I recently discovered that you can import it directly from SPSS, which has the advantage that you keep all the variable labels, variable descriptions, scale settings, and answer ...

you're right, the hierarchies are wrong. MLWin mistakes the 10 units at the country-level for 382 units.
Do you have any idea how to fix this?
I checked:
- for this categorical variable ("country"), only 10 values are specified and used in the dataset,
- I copied the values from the country ...

Hi,

I am calculating a multinomial (answer categories not ordered) multilevel model, with:
- 3 levels (country, grandparent, grandparent-child dyad),
- 3 possible answer categories,
- in IGL/RIGL (no, MCMC does not work; I know that it would be nicer),
- as a random intercept (random at the ...